English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Father" in Example Sentences
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21487	As soon as he graduated, he went to work in his father's general store.	CK
2055275	I don't know about João, but Maria lost her father when she was young.	Dejo
251621	My father was no less affectionate and tender to me than my mother was.	CM
954615	When my father went into the hospital, I had to put everything on hold.	CK
251683	My father always thought that he wanted to be a pilot when he was a boy.	human600
266311	My mother's religion helped her to come to terms with my father's death.	CM
46407	The boy was on the point of drowning when his father came to his rescue.	CK
29904	Yoshio resembles his mother in personality and his father in appearance.	CK
319093	Father kept in touch with us by mail and telephone while he was overseas.	CM
247064	It was when I was eight years old that I climbed Mt. Fuji with my father.	Nero
33006	Margaret, whose father you met last Sunday, is a very good tennis player.	CM
635431	When I was young, my father often talked to me about the Golden Pavilion.	Scott
17077	Your argument is not any more convincing than that of my stubborn father.	Zifre
64074	A stranger asked the girl whether her father was at home or at his office.	CK
1356028	Linda was called back from college because of her father's sudden illness.	CK
1990406	My father is proud of the fact that he's never been in a traffic accident.	CK
1093356	Tom knew a man whose father was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.	CK
71564	You will save your father a lot of worry if you simply write him a letter.	CK
251620	By the time he retires, my father will have worked for almost thirty years.	CK
251712	By the time my father retires, he will have worked for almost thirty years.	CK
39911	He finally decided to go to his mother with the news his father had shared.	CM
30626	If it had not been for his father's help, he would have failed in business.	CK
32890	Michael, this is the restaurant where your father and I had our first date.	CK
28550	Father was in a bad mood since he couldn't play golf because of bad weather.	CM
282929	If he keeps drifting aimlessly, his late father will turn over in his grave.	CM
387423	You should apologize to your father for not getting home in time for dinner.	CK
318933	My father believed that anyone who could not make a living in Japan was lazy.	CM
1474122	Because her parents got divorced, the girl had little contact with her father.	CK
2240071	I bought a scarf for my grandfather on my father's side for his 88th birthday.	CK
279752	I had been in Tokyo only three days when I received news of my father's death.	CK
267986	The boy grew taller and taller, till at last he exceeded his father in height.	CK
3144530	There's no evidence to suggest that Tom has been anything other a good father.	CK
254430	I was going to speak to his father about that matter, but thought better of it.	CK
1093474	Tom is having trouble dealing with the fact that his father was a mass murderer.	CK
237835	His brothers, sisters or he himself is to go to the station to meet their father.	CM
679825	My mother and father are sending me to Boston for the summer to visit my cousins.	CK
72833	The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.	CK
1474123	Because her parents got divorced, the girl had hardly any contact with her father.	CK
318863	If my father had not been killed in the war, he would be over sixty years old now.	CK
2580444	Billy and his father have had nothing to do with each other for nearly twenty years.	CK
246357	The antiques my father left when he died turned out to be nothing but worthless junk.	CK
280676	When I got the phone call telling me of my father's death, I was completely flustered.	CM
3148255	When I was a little boy, my father and I went to Boston to visit my great grandfather.	CK
1323925	When my father found out that I've been going out with Nimrod Nick, he got very angry.	CK
266264	I began driving our tractor when I was 12 years old to help my father out at harvest time.	CK
2674464	My father celebrated his seventieth birthday this year, but he's more energetic than I am.	WestofEden
242250	This morning I got a telegram from home saying that my father had been suddenly taken ill.	papabear
327248	The hit-and-run driver, accompanied by his father, came and turned himself in the next day.	CK
2150564	My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have.	galoosh33
1093030	Tom said that he thought Mary wouldn't want to visit the place where her father had committed suicide.	CK